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...name was Deanna Durbin. Today Joe Pasternak has pulled the same trick with pleasant, but not electrifying, results. The name of his find is Gloria Jean and her first picture, "The Underpup." With a none-too realistic rich girls' camp as a back ground, she swings through an enjoyable pastel plot with occasional time-outs to show off a very nice voice. C. Aubrey Smith crashes through again as one of the better parts of the supporting cast. There are also a couple of Katzenjammer Kids who might, with only a small stretch of the imagination, be considered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/24/1939 | See Source »

...figure is heavy brassiere and well-boned corset may be preferred. Knickers should be in Directoire style, with elastic at waist and knees, in any dark shade preferred. Nurses and other national workers who wear light frocks will still choose white or the pinks, peach or pastel blue underwear shades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vest and Pantie | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...well-stocked bars, roomy lounges, the $2,000,000 train (owned jointly by Southern Pacific, Union Pacific and Chicago & North Western) was the nearest thing to a night club on wheels in U. S. transport. It was 10:30 p. m. Some of the 149 passengers were abed in pastel-shaded roomettes, but the club car was still comfortably full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: In Humboldt Canyon | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...breakfast time she found the sun had painted a pale glow over the downs and the sea moved in a light that somehow was more like silver than gold. But those rolling downs! Nowhere call there by another green quite like their shade in late May. A pastel tint, they lay, deepening the bollows to a hunter emerald. So she made garden throughout the morning, busy with tulip and dahlia tubers, hollybook plants to draw the bees, and the bitter tansy. The grocery boy came by with news of a herring run down at the Gut. He sniffed. "Seems like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Other pieces in the exhibit, however, such as the pastel Child Eating Soup, are done in a subdued yet colorful manner with an unmistakable but not grating sense of strength and certainty. In this specific work, the figure of the child is rather grotesque and boldly realistic. It is valuable as art because it portrays solidity and bluntness in a fashion that is reasonable and interesting...

Author: By Jack Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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